The Nationaal Bus Museum (; en, National Bus Museum) is a
transport museum
A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can als ...
in
Hoogezand
Hoogezand is a town in the municipality of Midden-Groningen, in the province of Groningen in northeast Netherlands.
History
The name refers to a higher sanded ''(Hooge Sandt)'' place in the peatlands cut through when the Winschoterdiep cha ...
in the
Netherlands
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. The museum has a collection of Dutch
bus
A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for cha ...
es. With 27,027 visitors in 2015, it is one of the most-visited museums in the province of
Groningen
Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...
.
Location
The museum is located at the Produktieweg in the village of Hoogezand, part of the municipality of
Hoogezand-Sappemeer
Hoogezand-Sappemeer () is a former municipality in the Northeastern Netherlands. It was the third most-populous municipality in the province of Groningen, after Groningen and Oldambt. It was formed in 1949 by the merger of the former municipaliti ...
, in the province of
Groningen
Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...
in the northeast of the
Netherlands
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, anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau")
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, subdivision_type = Sovereign state
, subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands
, established_title = Before independence
, established_date = Spanish Neth ...
.
Collection
The museum has a collection of
bus
A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for cha ...
es and bus-related objects from the Netherlands, especially from the northern part of the country.
File:00-FB-63 GVBG 61 Nationaal Bus Museum.JPG, GVBG 61
File:VAD Nefkens 10-VB-21 1759.jpg, Nefkens 59/VAD 1759
File:DVM 57 29-90-XB 1977.jpg, DVM 57
File:Harmanni bus Nationaal Bus Museum.jpg, Harmanni 66
File:Nationaal Bus Museum AB-99-99 GVG 7 17-04-2013.JPG, GVG 7
File:GADO 4400 1958 Huisstijl Nationaal Busmuseum.jpg, GADO 4400
Administration
Willem Goelema is chairman of the museum.
The museum had 18,812 visitors in 2013, 28,260 visitors in 2014, and 27,027 visitors in 2015. The visitor numbers are including museum bus rides. It is one of six museums in
Groningen
Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...
with more than 25 thousand visitors in 2015, making it one of the most-visited museums of the province that year.
Since 2015, the museum has been registered in the Museumregister Nederland (Netherlands Museum Register), a quality mark for museums in the Netherlands.
Geregistreerde musea
(in Dutch), Museumregister Nederland. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
References
External links
Nationaal Bus Museum
(in Dutch), official website
Bus museums
Transport in Midden-Groningen
Museums in Groningen (province)
Transport museums in the Netherlands
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